Malificant:
so i have found that i enjoy a good mini-series much more so than normal shows. that is with exeption to the History Channel, as their series are great. ones i am a fan of are:
Firefly (mini series serenity is based on)
Band of Brothers
Rome
Deadwood
Tales of the Gun
also, a while back i remember hearing something about a channel making “A Song of Fire and Ice” miniseries, based off george rr martin’s book series. anyone know if this ever happened?
cornixt:
What is the difference between a mini-series and a normal show? The number of episodes? Or the way it ends?
Firefly was meant to be a full season, but was cancelled half-way through and is still longer than a full season of shows in the UK!
Malificant:
well, a miniseries as i define it is usually a shorter number of episodes, like 6-15. the series also usually ends after one season, or an intended short run of just a couple seasons, intentionally so. firefly is different as sci-fi pulled it after some dispute. for example, band of brothers is i beleive 6 or 8 one hour episodes. idk, i guess im really just interested in finding out about song of fire and ice.
Khan!:
Actually iirc Firefly was cancelled by Fox, to make way for some new crappy reality show and/or offensive sit-com. Man I hate Fox. I haven’t heard anything about a George RR Martin mini series, that could be interesting but I fear that it could be a really ham-fisted Sci-Fi channel-type affair. If HBO did it, and it turned out like Rome, it could be awesome - but I’m concerned about having my enjoyment of the books tarnished by bad writing/acting/casting/cgi. Also, so much happens in those books that I dunno how a tv adaptation would be feasible.
Malificant:
if anyone can scratch the surface and do a near decent job, it’s HBO.
WarplockMonkey:
If anybody heres from britain, anybody watch torchwood when it was on?
Kera foehunter:
dead wood like what was on hbo??
Malificant:
that’s the one.
cornixt:
I’ve been through the actual town of Deadwood. Not much to do there beyond gambling.
Kera foehunter:
Sweet me too .Then we went to the devil tower.Deadwood was to much hollywood for me.